Creating Opportunities for All Americans: Obama Administration’s Record and the African American Community As President Obama told the country in his 2015 State of the Union address, the state of our union is strong. But the President also believes we need to do more than just recover from the economic crisis we just faced—a crisis […]

Shae Hill holds her daughter Fredderio, 3 months, inside a store May 7, 2009 in Glendora, Mississippi. For the tenth year in a row, Mississippi ranked worst in the nation in child well being. GETTY IMAGES LAS VEGAS – Karla Washington worries how she will afford new school uniforms for her five-year-old daughter. Washington, an undergraduate […]

The container area at the Yangshan Deep Water Port, part of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone: research shows China will overtake the US this year as the world’s largest economy. Photograph: Carlos Barria/Reuters China is poised to overtake the US as the world’s largest economy this year, earlier than expected. Fresh research by the International […]

Because President Obama’s recovery program could not begin until March 2009, its results would not be felt until at least Apr 2009, if not much later. As a consequence, all data for the first three months (1st Qtr) of 2009 and prior belong to President Bush and the conservative economic program Even though the Democrats […]

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Homeless American Homelessness in the United States is an area of concern for social service providers, government officials, policy professionals, and humanity.[1] The number of homelesspeople grew in the 1980s, as housing and social service cuts increased and the economy deteriorated. The United States government determined that somewhere between 200,000 and […]

By PHILIP MOELLER September 18, 2013 Editor’s Note: This is the first part in a continuing series counting down to the Oct. 1 launch for new state health insurance exchanges that have been created to help people find coverage and meet the requirement for mandatory health insurance that takes effect Jan. 1, 2014. There is a […]

By Monica Nickelsburg | Forbes.com – Mon, Jun 24, 2013 3:55 PM EDT Forbes.com/Getty Images – McGraw Hill Construction sorted through building data for the nation’s Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) to find the 20 places where the most money has been spent so far this year on new construction (from January through May 2013). Forbes looked at the dollar amount […]

In addition to the headline unemployment rate, the BLS also breaks out the unemployment rate for numerous demographic groups. The unemployment rate by education level, race/ethnicity, age andgender are reported below. Unemployment Rate by Education Level In 1992, the BLS began tracking unemployment rates by education level. Highlighted below are the unemployment rates for the following four groups classified by […]

Since his death in 1968, the civil and human rights movement has carried on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s work, broken down barriers, and created new opportunities for many who once faced exclusion and discrimination based on race, ethnicity, national origin, age, sex, disability, religion or sexual orientation. But as King saw in 1968, chronic poverty and […]

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In 2007, the United States topped the list of countries by incarceration rate A map of U.S. states by incarceration rate under state and federal jurisdiction, but excluding jail inmates, per 100,000 population in 2008.[1] Graph of incarceration rate under state and federal jurisdiction per 100,000 population 1925-2008 (omits local jail inmates). […]

Overall pluses in October Jobs were added in these sectors Professional and business services +51,000 Trade, transportation and utilities +45,000 Leisure and hospitality + 8,000 Education and health +25,000 Construction +17,000 Manufacturing +13,000 Other services +9,000 Financial activities +4,000 Information +1,000 Jobs were lost in this sector Government -13,000 Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics […]